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Besides, Katsuragi hates taking photos with children, and often says that taking photos with children will lower the image of Onimare or something like that..."
"I see." Conan heard this and lowered his head in thought.
[So, Katsuragi did behave quite a bit this morning, which was quite unusual for him. Is that right…]
"Little brother, are you helping Detective Maori collect information?" Looking at Conan's pensive look, the staff couldn't help but teased.
"Hey? Oh, yes, I'm Detective Mori's assistant. Big brother, do you have any other information to tell me?" Conan asked cutely with his big eyes.
"It's not really intelligence, but..."
As he spoke, the staff member quietly pointed to a man not far away, and Conan looked in the direction he pointed.
Although this man is not tall, he is very strong and his upper body is almost shaped like an inverted triangle.
In contrast to his strong physique, the man has a face that looks like a punching bag, giving people the impression that he is easy to bully.
"His name is Komiya Masaru, and he is Katsuragi's stunt double. If it weren't for his shoulder discomfort, he should have played this scene..."
"Brother, are he and Mr. Katsuragi good friends?" Looking at Komiya Masaru's dejected face, Conan asked casually.
"No, they are just seniors and juniors from the same theater. Komiya is the senior and Katsuragi is the junior.
Even so, Katsuragi became a big star before Komiya, and Komiya, as a senior, could only be a stuntman for his junior. Komiya seemed to be very concerned about this..."
[In other words, is there sufficient motivation? ]
Conan understood what the staff wanted to convey.
"There's one more thing..." As if becoming interested, the staff member quietly pointed to another female staff member.
Conan turned his head and found that it was the same Kawada Yumi who had been called by Hoshino Terumi to entertain them before.
Yumi Kawata is short and fat, not very good-looking, and seems to have a cowardly personality, so she appears very inconspicuous in the crew.
At this moment, she was sitting alone, with a complicated expression on her face, mixed with sadness, difficulty and even regret.
"The relationship between Kawada and Katsuragi is actually quite unusual."
"Why do you say that?" Conan asked.
"Because she was actually a huge fan of Katsuragi when he first debuted. I heard that she was trying her best to squeeze into our crew just to be able to work for Katsuragi by his side...
She also has an online account called 'Yumi', through which she often posts some very explicit and passionate words of love to Katsuragi, which everyone in the crew knows.
But Katsuragi has always been indifferent to Kawada, often deliberately ignoring Kawada's kindness to him. He must hate Kawada, right? I think Kawada herself has noticed this to some extent..."
As he spoke, the staff member suddenly took out his mobile phone, found Kawada Yumi's blog account named "Yumi", and pulled out her latest tweet.
[If Douzhen dies, will he belong to me alone? ]
Looking at this tweet from a few days ago on the account, Conan couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.
[This is really... a bit suspicious...]
"Okay, that's all I know. Little detective, remember to tell Detective Maori, ok?"
"Well, I see."
Nodding, Conan turned around and walked directly towards Hoshino Terumi who was not far away.
When Toma Katsuragi was murdered, Hoshino Terumi was one of the only two people on the artificial cliff, so there were some questions he had to ask no matter what.
"Ms. Hoshino."
"Are you... the child next to Detective Mori?" Hoshino Terumi looked down at Conan and smiled slightly.
"Well, my name is Conan, and Detective Maori wants me to ask you some questions, Miss Hoshino."
"Okay, go ahead and ask." Without any unusual expression, Hoshino Terumi nodded.
"Ms. Hoshino and Mr. Katsuragi have a bad relationship?" Conan asked directly.
After Toma Katsuragi came to the studio this morning, he felt that the relationship between the two seemed not to be good.
"It's not that bad." Hoshino Terumi thought about it seriously and replied, "I'm just dissatisfied with his frequent delays in filming. I have other schedules too, so I hate this."
"I see. Then Miss Hoshino, I would like to ask, what did Mr. Katsuragi do on the cliff at that time?"
"I've talked to Xiaoying about this before. When the director called for the jump, Katsuragi first slowly retreated to the back edge, squatted with his back to me, doing something, and then suddenly jumped. That's it."
[Did you do anything unusual like squatting before jumping? ]
Conan nodded slightly, and then he suddenly noticed that there were some strange marks similar to strangulation marks on Hoshino Terumi's wrists and palms.
"Ms. Hoshino, your hand..."
"this one?"
Hoshino Terumi raised her hand to show him a look and explained, "This is the makeup I put on before filming, because there was a scene in the previous plot where the heroine was captured and locked up by the enemy, so it would look unnatural if I didn't draw a mark on my wrist... Of course, the quality of the foundation they used is not very good."
As Hoshino Terumi spoke, she rubbed the area with the marks drawn on it with her finger with a little force, and the originally neat and realistic marks were instantly rubbed out.
"If you don't pay attention, it will be easily damaged."
If she hadn't been waiting here to cooperate with the police investigation, Hoshino Terumi would have gone out to wash the stuff on her hands long ago.
"Wow, that's really troublesome... By the way, Miss Hoshino, when did you come to the photo studio today?" Conan suddenly asked.
"Me? I came early."
"Is he the first one to come?"
"That's not the case. As for the first one... I remember it was Producer Shibata." After thinking for a while, Hoshino Terumi replied.
"Ugh?"
Hearing an unexpected answer, Conan quickly asked: "Producer? Didn't Mr. Shibata come after Mr. Katsuragi was murdered? Could it be that Miss Hoshino, you remembered it wrong?"
"Then he should have gone back halfway, right?"
Hoshino Terumi also frowned when she heard this.
“Because we need to clock in and out of the studio, the security guard will record our names and the time we arrived.
But when I came this morning, the security guard was having breakfast, so I wrote all the information myself. I took a look at it at the time. The first person to come was Producer Shibata, and the second earliest was Katsuragi..."
【First and second? 】
Just as Conan was asking Hoshino Terumi, he noticed that Mori Kogoro and Karasuma Ying also walked out from behind the artificial cliff and walked towards the producer Shibata Daisuke who also stayed in the studio.
After a slight hesitation, Conan walked over quickly.
"Katsuragi is indeed a good partner to me..."
As soon as Conan approached the three people, he heard Daisuke Shibata say these words in a very sad and regretful tone.
"Although Katsuragi often does some outrageous things, the two of us have always been the most tacit partners in the production of Onimare. He also often gives me some good suggestions. I really didn't expect that he would encounter such a thing..."
"Mr. Shibata, what do you mean by extraordinary things?" Karasuma Ying grasped the key point of his words and asked.
"There are many, such as your case..." Shibata Daisuke pushed his glasses and said, "Katsuragi seems to be being followed recently, so he wants to find a detective or bodyguard or something, I know that.
But I didn't expect that among the people he invited, there were elementary school students and high school girls who came to visit. He never told me about this. Things like this often happen to him, and other staff members often complain about this..."
[Huh? Wait? ]
After hearing this, Wu Wanying suddenly noticed something strange.
Strange, didn't Daisuke Shibata know they were coming in advance?
But before that, he...
"Mr. Mori, does the police suspect that Katsuragi was murdered?" When Karasuma Ying was confused, Shibata Daisuke suddenly asked.
"Ah, that's indeed the case at the moment." Kogoro Mouri nodded in response.
"I see. If that's the case, I did notice something strange before, and I think it may be helpful to the police investigation." Shibata Daisuke raised his hand and pushed his glasses down, his expression solemn.
"What's strange?" Kogoro Mouri asked hurriedly.
"It was Katsuragi's stunt double, Komiya Masaru. It was about two days ago. I was about to leave after finishing my work that day, and when I was passing by the warehouse, I suddenly heard some noise inside.
At the time I thought it was a thief, so I quietly leaned over to take a look, and I found out that the person inside was actually Xiao Gong. I saw him sneaking around in front of the rack where the costumes were placed, as if he was doing something..."
"Did you see clearly what it was?" asked Kogoro Mouri.
"Sorry, I didn't see it, but his expression at the time was particularly dark and terrifying, and it left a deep impression on me..."
"Really? Thank you Mr. Shibata for the information. We will investigate it seriously." Kogoro Mori nodded, as if he had thought of something.
"It's okay. It's my honor to help the police. I also hope that you can find the murderer as soon as possible." Shibata Daisuke smiled gently.
"Yes, I will. Don't worry."
While the two were being polite to each other, Karasuma Ying finally noticed Conan who was sneaking over. The two looked at each other, turned around and walked to an empty corner nearby.
"Hey, Sister Xiaoying, have you discovered anything?" Conan asked first, with a cute tone.
"Indeed there is... Conan, have you also asked something for Mr. Maori?" Karasuma Ying asked with the same smile.
"Yes, there are some."
"Eh……"
Just like that, the two exchanged information.
"Sure enough, that person is very suspicious..."
After combining the information from the two people's investigation, Conan said in a deep voice.
"The question now is, how on earth did he do this?"
"I saw a strange scratch on the top steel frame behind the artificial cliff." Wu Wanying replied.
"A scratch?"
"Well, it's a kind of scratch that looks like it was left by something like a rope or wire rubbing against it at high speed, but I didn't find anything nearby that could cause such a scratch."
Do you want to go to the warehouse and take a look?" Conan suggested.
"I think so too."
Without hesitation, the two said hello to Sato Miwako and went to the warehouse of the photography studio together.
Just like the warehouses people generally imagine, the photography studio's warehouse is also filled with shelves piled with various large and small cartons with labels on them.
Entering the warehouse, the first thing Conan saw was a large clothes hanger in the innermost part of the front. On the hanger were three almost identical sets of Onimare leather suits.